The DOTC may seek project approval from the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) in the second or third quarter of the year, after which the government will bid out the project in the second quarter of 2015.

Transportation Assistant Secretary Jaime Feliciano said government is planning to increase urban mass transport ridership to 2.2 million per day by 2016 or 2017 from the current 1.2 million per day under its Rail Transport Development Plan.

Feliciano said that under the plan, DOTC will develop intermodal facilities and improve transport linkages and efficiency to production and consumption markets.

Other projects are the proposed P284 billion North-South Commuter Rail that will run from Malolos, Bulacan to Calamba in Laguna; and the P271 billion Integrated Luzon Railway project Sorsogon in Bicol to Tuguegarao in Cagayan.

The DOTC is also planning a 28-kilometer bus rapid transit worth P4.65 billion that will provide service from Manila City Hall to Philcoa in Quezon City and from Commonwealth to Fairview.

DOTC is also set to bid out the operation and maintenance of the Light Rail Transit Line 2 (LRT-2) expansion in Antipolo City.

There are also plans to extend LRT-1 all the way to Dasmarinas, Cavite on top of the ongoing bidding for the P65 billion LRT-1 extension project to Bacoor.